President Donald Trump has been found liable by a Manhattan, New York jury of sexual assault against a woman named E. Jean Carroll. They also found Trump liable of defamation against her. They have ordered Trump to pay her damages as a result of the Civil judgment in the amount of $5 million.
The accusation is that this happened in 1996 (she wasn’t sure of the exact date) at a Department Store. The jury apparently did not believe Carroll in claiming she had been raped by Trump, but found that Trump did sexually assault her.
Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday was found liable for sexual abuse and defamation — and ordered to pay more than $5 million in damages — by a federal jury in writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit accusing him of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room decades ago.
Carroll, 79, held her head down as the verdict was read in Manhattan federal court — and nodded when she heard the jury finding in favor of her defamation claim for Trump, 76, branding her a liar when she came forward with her allegations.
The nine-person jury — three women and six men — decided the case after three hours of deliberations that began just before noon Tuesday.
Neither Carroll nor her attorney, Roberta Kaplan, spoke to the mass of reporters outside the Lower Manhattan courthouse as they left hand in hand, with the former “Ask E. Jean” columnist breezing through the crowd and into a waiting car.
“I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS. THIS VERDICT IS A DISGRACE – A CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social following the verdict.
The jurors rejected Carroll’s claim in her 2019 suit that Trump had raped her, but found him liable for sexual abuse. Carroll had accused Trump of attacking her in a fitting room at the Fifth Avenue department store, most likely in 1996. He has denied her allegations. . . .
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